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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Call me morbid, but, the moment I arrived at Yale, I couldn’t wait to visit the graveyard.
I visited campus last February, to present the Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) Colloquium. The YQI occupies a building whose stone exterior honors Yale’s Gothic a...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Apple needs chips that will connect the iPhone to the new, fifth-generation wireless networks being introduced now or risk falling behind its rivals. Modems, or baseband processors, are what connects all iPhones and some iPads and Apple Watches to c...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
NASA's TESS exoplanet hunting telescope has been on the job for less than a year, but it's already racking up some impressive discoveries. Following the announcement of a new "Hot Saturn" back in March, NASA just revealed that TESS...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Zach Gibson/GettyGov. Jay Inslee (D-WA), whose presidential campaign has been built on prioritizing climate change above all issues, is calling on the Democratic National Committee to host a presidential candidate debate solely on that one topic. “Th...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
If you've ever worried that humanity will ever wipe itself out so completely that there'll be no record of our civilization for aliens to discover, you can now rest (somewhat) easy. Even if we blow everything on Earth to smithereens tomorrow,...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Nearly two weeks into its assault, the veteran general's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) is stuck in the city's southern outskirts battling armed groups loyal to the internationally recognized Tripoli government. Another official told Libya...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Rebuilding Notre Dame will take time – maybe decades. But thank the medieval builders whose work helped save the structure.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
At least one running argument among cat lovers is now over: Whiskers, Lucy and Tigger are definitely better off staying indoors, scientists reported Wednesday. Pet cats allowed outdoors, in fact, are nearly three times as likely to become infected w...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Eating red meat just once a day increases your risk of bowel cancer by a fifth, a study by Oxford University suggests. The research based on almost half a million British men and women found that even moderate consumption of ham and bacon was linked...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The European Parliament is set to vote Wednesday on draft rules by the European Commission, the bloc’s executive body, that would endorse WiFi technology pushed by VW, General Motors, and Volvo Group. BMW and other car and telecom firms are urging E...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
The Mighty's fibromyalgia community shares 12 "helpful" suggestions they are tired of hearing.
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Nearly two weeks into its assault, the veteran general's eastern-based Libyan National Army (LNA) is stuck in the city's southern outskirts battling armed groups loyal to the internationally-recognized Tripoli government. Forces allied to Tripoli ha...
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Apple will make a one-time payment to Qualcomm, and the two reached a multiyear agreement whereby Qualcomm will supply chips and license its technology to the iPhone maker in exchange for royalty payments, the companies said Tuesday in a statement....
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Heidi Harley
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4 years ago
Finding planets outside of our solar system is a challenge, and determining the size, composition, and surface conditions of such planets is more difficult still. Figuring out whether life could exist on an exoplanet, based on all the previous inform...